Blog Category: Redeployable CCTV

April 2027 is closer than it looks.

The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 - the legislation enacted from the campaign known as Martyn's Law - received Royal Assent on 3 April 2025. The Home Office has confirmed that implementation is expected no earlier than April 2027, following a transition period. That gives responsible persons, event organisers, and the security professionals advising them roughly two years to understand what's required and put it in place.

For installers who work with events clients - festivals, markets, outdoor concerts, sporting events, exhibitions - the implications are significant. Not because the law mandates specific equipment. ...

It's 7:30 am. Your client is on the phone.

There's been a break-in overnight. The site cabin has been turned over, three grand's worth of power tools are gone, and the CCTV tower is standing there in the corner of the site looking exactly as it should.

Except it wasn't recording.

"It shows the last footage was Tuesday," your client says. Today is Friday. "Did it run out of power?"

You call the supplier. They explain that during low-light conditions in winter, the tower remotely sheds non-essential loads to conserve battery. Recording, it turns out, is classified as a non-essential load.

So yes. Your CCTV ...

Your phone rings at 7:15 am. It's your client. There's been a break-in at the construction site overnight - power tools gone, plant cabin ransacked. And the CCTV tower? "The footage stops on Tuesday," they tell you. "Did you know it wasn't recording?"

You didn't. And now you're explaining to a very unhappy client why the temporary security you recommended... wasn't actually working.

That scenario plays out on sites across the UK every week. Not because installers don't care. Because the redeployable CCTV market is confusing, poorly defined, and almost entirely explained by manufacturers who have a vested interest in what you ...

When you need agricultural CCTV tower hire at short notice... Here's what 24 hours looks like!

Because...

When rural theft starts, it doesn't stop at one site.

A neighbouring farm gets hit. Then the next. Then yours.